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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
Two weeks later the doctor was passing and he saw the tailor working, healthy and full of energy.
So he said, ”What, are you still alive? You should have been dead long ago. I have consulted the
books and this is impossible. How do you manage to be alive?”
The tailor said, ”You told me that within a week I would have to die, so I thought: Then why not live?
Just a week left.... And potato pancakes are my weakness, so I left your surgery, went straight to
the cafe, ate thirty-two potato pancakes and immediately I felt a great surge of energy. And now I
am absolutely okay!”
Right away the doctor noted down in his diary that thirty-two potato pancakes is a sure cure for
severe cases of pneumonia.
The next patient by chance also had pneumonia. He was a shoemaker. The doctor said, ”Don’t
worry. Now the cure has been discovered. Immediately go and eat thirty-two potato pancakes, not
less than thirty-two, and you will be okay; otherwise, you will die within a week.”
After a week, the doctor knocked at the shoemaker’s door. It was locked. The neighbor said, ”He
is dead. Your potato pancakes killed him.” Immediately he noted in his diary: Thirty-two potato
pancakes help tailors, kill shoemakers.
This is the abstract mind. He cannot be practical, the brahmin.
You can change surfaces, you can paint faces, but the inner type remains the same. Hence the East
has not troubled itself with revolutions. The East is waiting; and those in the East who are wise, they
look at the West, and they know that you are playing with toys. All your revolutions are toys. Sooner
or later you will come to realize the law of three in the morning.
What is this three in the morning? A disciple must have asked Chuang Tzu, because whenever
somebody mentioned revolution or change, Chuang Tzu would laugh and say, ”The law of the three
in the morning.” So a disciple must have asked, ”What is this three in the morning you are always
talking about?”
Said Chuang Tzu:
IT IS ABOUT A MONKEY TRAINER
WHO WENT TO HIS MONKEYS AND TOLD THEM:
”AS REGARDS YOUR CHESTNUTS,
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THREE MEASURES IN THE MORNING,
AND FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON.”
ON HEARING THIS ALL THE MONKEYS BECAME ANGRY....”
Because in the past they had been getting four measures in the morning and three in the evening.
Obviously they got angry! ”What do you mean? We always used to get four measures of chestnuts
in the morning and now you say three. We cannot tolerate this.”
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